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SUMMARY:Is Carbon Storage safe? Insights from the &gt\;400\,000 year old G
 reen River natural analogue \, Utah - Alexandra Maskell\, Department of Ea
 rth Sciences\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20140130T130000Z
DTEND:20140130T140000Z
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CONTACT:Aleksandr Sahakyan
DESCRIPTION:The recent 'polar vortex' in North America and the current hea
 t wave in Australia is bringing climate change once again to the forefront
  of society's mind. Carbon capture and geological storage represents a pot
 ential means of managing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. To allow the s
 urface carbon cycle to attenuate atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations
  and reduce atmospheric temperatures\, carbon dioxide must be safely store
 d for at least 10\,000 years. It is therefore crucial to accurately predic
 t the performance of geological storage sites through and beyond this time
 scale for the demonstration of secure storage and to satisfy operational\,
  regulatory and public acceptance criteria. Natural analogues allow study 
 of carbon dioxide-water-rock reactions on timescales inaccessible to labor
 atory experiments\, free from the uncertainties associated with computer m
 odels\, and also without the costs associated with carbon dioxide injectio
 n experiments.\n
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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